Ish
Directed by Imran PerrettaUnited Kingdom 2025
Runtime 90'
Twelve-year-old best friends, Ish and Maram wrestle to hold onto their friendship, in the wake of a traumatic police stop & search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.
Directed by
Imran Perretta
Screenplay
Imran Perretta, Enda Walsh
Cinematography
Jermaine Canute Edwards
Editing
Adam Biskupski
Music Department
Imran Perretta (Composer), Lucy Bright (Music Supervisor)
Sound
Jens Petersen, Nina Hartstone (Supervising Sound Editors), Jake Whitelee (Production Sound Mixer)
Production Design
Elena Isolini
Costume Design
Neesha Tulsi Champaneria
Casting Director
Lara Manwaring
Location Manager
Alyson Ripo
Hair & Make-up Designer
Susana Mota
Cast
Farhan Hasnat, Yahya Kitana, Avin Shah, Sudha Bhuchar, Joy Crookes, Arman Mohammed, Is’haaq Hasan Haque, Hasnain Shah, Zubin Varla
Production
Dhiraj Mahey (Primal Pictures), Bennett McGhee (Home Team)
Executive Producers
Claudia Yusef (BBC Film), Ama Ampadu (BFI), Mike Goodridge, Yoav Rosenberg (Good Chaos), John Glencross, Mariyah Dosani (Calculus Media), Eric Kuhn, Dorian Grinspan (Out Of Order)
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Imran Perretta (1988) is a writer, director, visual artist and composer. Achieving acclaim in the world of contemporary art, his sound and moving image work has been performed and shown internationally and is included in a number of public and private art collections. His most recent film work The Destructors toured major institutions across the UK. He was named a Turner Prize Bursary winner in 2020, a Jarman Award nominee in 2019, and was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist Award in 2023.
